Saturday, November 03, 2012

FRANK SCHAEFFER, New York Times best-selling author, posed this question in the Huffington Post last week:

According to polls 73 percent of WHITE evangelicals will be voting for Mitt Romney.If the polls are correct here's the question I'd like to ask evangelicals using their own style of language/concerns/theological thinking as applied to their choice:What's the explanation forthe fact that WHITE American evangelicals made the allegedly philandering lying ignorant braggart lapsed Roman Catholic Dinesh D'Souza
their anti-Obama hero, embrace a pro-choice Mormon bishop who promoted
abortion and Planned Parenthood in MA, are working to elect a
job-destroying tax-avoiding lying flip-flopping-tell-anyone-anything-they-want-to-hear Swiss bank account collecting draft dodger
running with a disciple of the God-hating, Jesus-mocking
hater-of-the-poor Ayn Rand, for their presidential candidate and look
the other way as a crazed ultra-Zionist many Israeli Jews fear billionaire casino owner who is being investigated for allegedly making billions off the dirtiest Chinese gambling Communist Party-controlled
outfit in the world funds the enterprise, at the very same time as
Franklin Graham sold his ailing father Billy's soul and denied core
evangelical theology by taking Mormonism off the Billy Graham
organization's list of cultsTrinity-denying, casino-money-grubbing billionaire-coddling, earth-destroying global-warming denying Mormon bishop win respectability for his dead-Jews-baptizing-polygamy-rooted-reality-denying-interplanetary Masonic lodge-embracing faith
in an election against an exemplary modest faithful husband good father
compassionate smart BLACK evangelical Christian President who's major
accomplishments include saving the economy, ending a war, killing our
greatest enemy, giving health care to children and the poor and the
"least of these" and who has tried to reduce the number of abortions by helping women escape poverty in a reenactment of the lesson of the parable of the Good Samaritan?

Go figure.

Frank is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood, an acclaimed novelist of 4 novels including Portofino who overcame severe dyslexia, a home-schooled and self-taught
documentary movie director, a feature film director and producer of four
low budget Hollywood features Frank has described as "pretty terrible."
Frank's nonfiction includes "Keeping Faith-A Father-Son Story About
Love and the United States Marine Corps" and AWOL-The Unexcused Absence
of America's Upper Classes From Military Service and How It Hurts Our
Country."